all of a sudden, a spot fire breaks out. it is like this for miles up and down the road. and then there is this, a fire team deployed to protect three dozen yosemite s sequoia trees some of the oldest living things on earth in need of protection now. neal karlinsky, abc news, yosemite national park. for a large portion of the middle of the country the problem is late summer heat wave. right now the scorching temperatures especially tough on kids back in school with no air conditioning in classrooms many of them. school districts in several sweltering states sent the kids home early yesterday and they will probably have to do the same thing today. sometimes the rooms can actually reach temperatures over 100 degrees in which we do not want students or staff to be in those rooms. we ask them to go to better ventilated areas. they re even doing all they can to make it cooler for the pigs at the minnesota state fair. the swine barn installed a new $200,000 ventilation system to keep t
all of a sudden, a spot fire breaks out. it is like this for miles up and down the road. and then there is this, a fire team deployed to protect three dozen yosemite s sequoia trees some of the oldest living things on earth in need of protection now. neal karlinsky, abc news, yosemite national park. for a large portion of the middle of the country the problem is late summer heat wave. right now the scorching temperatures especially tough on kids back in school with no air conditioning in classrooms many of them. school districts in several sweltering states sent the kids home early yesterday and they will probably have to do the same thing today. sometimes the rooms can actually reach temperatures over 100 degrees in which we do not want students or staff to be in those rooms. we ask them to go to better ventilated areas. they re even doing all they can to make it cooler for the pigs at the minnesota state fair. the swine barn installed a new $200,000 ventilation system to keep t
now it s spreading even further. marianne rafferty has been here all night looking at the details here. hey, mary anne. it jumped the river flames racing towards homes in the glacier view area of the state. mandatory evacuations were tut into effect for 80 homes there. there are 1300 firefighters trying to put the flames out. high winds and thunderstorms opened up a new front for crews to battle. the storm spread embers that started a fire on sheet mountain. we are pulling resources from other aspects from the fire and positioning them in that area. however, it is a priority that we do not lose the anchor points we have established and worked so hard for. resources will made in those areas. they will continue to fight the fire while additional resources addresses the spot fire. right now the fire is only 15-20 percent contained. secretary of the interior toured
high plains outside of denver up toward the dakotas. we will watch potential for showers and thunderstorms and possible severe weather. 88 in kansas city warm across the west again 78 for new york city 93 in memphis. keep you up to date for all of the weather news ainsley and patti ann. talking about the fire puts life in perspective. it is 11 minutes after the hour. what is the one mistake both presidential campaigns are making right now? we will tell you what karl rove and bob beckel both sides have to say about that. and then a mayo emergency for one man. you are calling 911 because you don t like the way they are making your sandwich. exactly. just walk away and don t buy it. funny but so not. that call did not end there. we will tell you how this mayo fix called out. coming up a quick look at
it 112 and say it will go higher. and they are quick to remind us that it s not the number that s important but the human toll behind each one. it s really not just the list of numbers. these are stories. each one of these represents a family that s been displaced from their home that may have lost some family heirlooms. photos, possessions, kids toys, what have you. meantime, a massive effort to save 500 other homes from a spot fire. the cost of this fight now over $7 million. and growing by several million dollars each day and the weather is only going to get worst. predicting winds up to 50 miles per hour come monday. shep? shepard: dan springer live, fort collins, colorado tonight. hitchhike his or her claimed somebody shot him earlier this week now admits he shot himself. he is apparently working on a memoir called kindness in america and he told cops he was trying to get a ride along a montana highway when a driver opened fire and hit him in the arm.